skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The subset of the 'crowd' hating on Apple is not necessarily the same as its 'fanboys'. In fact they're probably mostly mutually exclusive.
I'd hate to be the guy to do this but...

I agree, to some extent, with Malcolm Gladwell's take on the Steve Jobs legacy.

http://tinyurl.com/br6rl7b

Still, RIP Steve and thanks for inspiring us.

Sent from my iPhone.
That's an interesting poll, thanks!
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Will those security changes break GetURL?

Also, isn't it normal to check the referrer when using API keys? That's what Facebook does -- API keys only work from certain domains, which effectively restricts their access. The downside is that you need to maintain separate API keys for every domain (staging, sandbox, etc), but the advantage is that they don't rely on the honor system :P
It is way faster (at least with dd):

$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=10MB.dat bs=1M count=10

real 0m0.213s

$ time dd if=/dev/urandom of=10MB.dat bs=1M count=10

real 0m8.873s
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Mysql has an embedded version. It may not boil down to a single file on the HD, but I don't see that as a big drawback.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/libmysqld.html
Legally, a venture which is not intended to make money, or which has no plans for earning revenue, is not a business. If the venture is not a business, it is generally treated as a hobby, meaning, among other things, that expenses are not deductible except to the extent of revenues earned.

A "business" without a revenue model could be, and in various courts has been, treated as a hobby. Thus, with startups, the lack of a plan for generating revenue could very well be the demarcating line between a business and a (very expensive) hobby.
More readable Go implementation of their weird 'pegboard' Turing machine: https://github.com/taliesinb/tmachine
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>Come on Universe, show us something unusually spectacular.

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. I can think of at least a few unusually spectacular events the universe could show us that I'm more than happy for it not to, or at least to show us from a great distance.

We are indeed tiny little specs of insignificance, but all things equal I'd like us to continue on being that and not get squashed like bugs by a random pebble flying through our planetary system or something. ;)
Or you know, you could change your home page...
Not necessarily true. They have profit, just not as much profit as their investors would have liked, or expected.
Does it look to anyone else as though the yellow square in the logo is slightly out of place? It's ever-so-slightly disconcerting. I wonder if it's an optical illusion or a subpixel thing.

EDIT: The green square as well appears to be shifted upward by less than a pixel, if that makes any sense.
I think the designer is really a kind of artist, and he/she must make use o its own style, preferences, talents and gifts and gifts, but considering UX/UX the attention to clients/customers/users wishes, preferences and expectation must be prioritized, preferably allowing some kind of customization and / or personalization - and always targeting the simplicity and practicality. Att @neigrando
I agree with other comments stating the market will weed out people who are too busy getting high on momentary fame to create something of lasting value. The OP's argument that this is a mis-allocation of resources is bunk -- these resources are EXACTLY where they need to be, and to me this reads like a very outsider look at Silicon Valley. People do dumb stuff, fail, and then either come back stronger with lessons learned or give up and are weeded out (as founders). Often they go on to make awesome startup employees.
Color would be a startup, because it has the intention to make money, and has attempted to make money (i.e., through ads).

The lack of success is not determinative of whether a venture is a business. However where the line is blurry (i.e., for a business operated out of a home), it could be the factor that tips the scales toward treating the venture as a hobby.
Have we learned anything from Steve Jobs' passing?
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SCP is really the solution here. But to be fair, I only discovered scp after a year or two of CLI work. I might have been tempted to hack something together like Taze's solution in my earlier days
"in relation to Microsoft's Bill Gates"

Their's different types of legacies you can leave behind. apples to oranges.
Code globally, help locally.
+1 for Foundation for the SASS and excellent responsive design.
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I absolutely love that this thread has gone from "nyah Apple's a patent troll" to discussing Rostropovich and Bach cello suites.

Well played HNers.
Wow, the first one crashed my chrome browser. Thanks for sharing
Your way sounds harder to set up though. This is an image that can be loaded right into VirtualBox. (Technically, it is split into 2 images to enable upgrading the system without touching the image containing your data.)
I wouldn't call it a conversation. He doesn't remotely address a single point in the original post. We could call it a presidential debate, maybe?
Try the site on a mobile device (or resize your browser window). Looks like they're employing a responsive layout.

I've always wondered why Apple doesn't make Apple.com easier to use on mobile devices. Maybe because they expect people to use the Apple Store app - even though it's only available to a select few countries?
The most authoritative-looking reference

http://www.aerasec.de/security/advisories/decompression-bomb...

in this typically thinly referenced Wikipedia article looks to be several years old. What is the current state of the art? Some of the comments already posted as I post this comment talk about the situation "years ago" and at least one comment suggests that this is largely a solved problem, currently. How many wild vulnerabilities like this are there, really?

(I ask questions like this about most "facts" reported in Wikipedia articles, because I am a Wikipedian myself, and I have become painfully aware of how often the "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" becomes "the encyclopedia in which every fact is just made up.") From a neutral point of view, is this really much of a problem in day-by-day computer use and online network use?
This brings up some cool questions about compression. Can any experts help me out here?

How many n-bit strings can be compressed? (I think this question is how many have a Kolmogorov complexity of less than n.)

Also, what is the difference between the statements "no program can compress every string" and "not every string can be compressed by some program". I think both are true, but they're referring to different strings, so it's kind of odd....
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This was a great social engineering hack:
The original challenge, poorly stated as it was, was not beaten. Craig started up a conversation with Mike, and tricked him into changing the rules. If Mike were careful, he would have paused to think about whether the proposed rule change would open the door to a hack.

It's a reminder to all of us that correctness is an ongoing process, not a delivered product.

Mike started the thread as a smart-alec Randi-esque elder, putting up money to shut up cranks. But he got blinded by his hubris.
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While I personally don't subscribe to the "one true way" philosophy, if you do (absolutely nothing wrong with that), you might be better off with mercurial than git.
Also try Ctrl+Shift+M if you're on a newer version of Firefox.
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As I said, you can also win the original challenge with this method. The original challenge is not fully specified. In particular it is not specified how the decompressor is to be encoded. There are encodings for the decompressor for which the strategy that I described does work, and encodings for which it does not work.

The interesting attribute of this method is that it does genuinely compress the file: it doesn't store data in hidden attributes like the method of the OP (which stores information in the file lengths).
Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it!
I had all the same objections. Their information sounds very outdated, especially how it applies to kickstarter.
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Can't find the original HN submission, but someone posted this interesting article about it a few days ago:
http://rainypixels.com/words/the-story-of-the-new-microsoft-...
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Have you seen this post?

It is a Closure implementation for Java 5, 6 and 7, it looks pretty neat, and works really well.

http://mseifed.blogspot.se/2012/09/closure-implementation-for-java-5-6-and.html
Most UNIX systems have a PATH_MAX. It's not just Windows.
I love the smell of coffee but have never got into drinking it. I drink tea occasionally. I usually have 8 cups of water each day & maybe a soda.

I do feel a buzz from drinking soda and can imagine I'd get the same from coffee.
Steve Case: Even in 1985, We Knew Facebook Was Possible
For me, last year was a one two punch. Two people I paid a lot of attention to both passed within the span of a few months. First Jack Layton and then Steve Jobs. Jobs' death I knew was coming, but still struck me. While Layton's death ruined my day (as it wasn't immediately obvious that he would pass). I completely understand the feeling.
Would Paying for OS Updates Solve the Android Spreading Latency?
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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
http://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/
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The follow ups and updates and TL;DR are beginning to rival the article in word count.

I'm not sure what this is a sign of, but I find it hilarious.
Some things need to be said, though the wording the poster chose was very poor. Something more beneficial to conversation like "I don't think that iOS would ever qualify as a cornerstone of my life. Why does it for you?" would've been a better move.

As for your other point, though--picking 4chan as a an example of a dumb life influence is not something I'd agree with. 4chan is a fairly unmoderated environment, whereas iOS is famous for being a heavily-managed walled garden.

I, for one, would rather list 4chan than iOS, if for no other reason than growing up in the technological equivalent of the burbs isn't something I'd be proud of.
Looks like the new Myspace, but brighter :)
printf, you have to know ahead of time whether you're going to be printing a string or a number.

In python you just print
That's more accurately described as memoization, as caching is a broader term.

Also, you might want to look into Sieve of Eratosthenes, as you only have to test up to sqrt(n) for primality:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes
Is this the beginning of making a legend and a myth out of Steve Jobs? Yes let's remember him but also let's move on.
Honestly, I think it would be nice if we started designing cities to be single-occupant car unfriendly. There is a lot of wasted space that could be more efficiently used by both commercial and community owned and operated people moving technology that is currently used by parking structures, roads, alleys, and thoroughfares. At the very least, I think that point to point automated transit should be a highly preferable option for retrofit. But of course, this sells fewer cars to the general populace so we probably won't see anything like this from companies who's main revenue stream is from precisely that.
So why not pop up a transient box on hover and a persistent box on click?
I really like it too. I'm afraid that if Windows 8 doesn't go over well, the whole look will get trashed by association.
I thought this was an interested comment on the early challenges of offering internet access to home PC users:

The fact that modems were viewed as "peripheral" to personal computers was our ultimate hurdle. Back then you went to the "peripherals" section of computer stores if your wanted to get connected.
> Apple was simply the first to do some of these things, or the first to do it well. But many were inevitable.

The hover car is inevitable. Should I not be amazed at one when I see it?

I guess not, because whoever makes it will "simply" be the first to do the inevitable.
I don't need to do that experiment because that's how I lived my life for the first 30 years! I only got into GTD because eventually my life did get complex enough that I did forget things and I did suffer mental anguish about personal failures as a result of not having a more robust system. The way I do things now is perfectly in proportion to my needs. I certainly don't read lifehacker or 57folders, and I am not addicted to productivity. I use OmniFocus about 20 mins a week, and I am a much happier person and definitely more productive on the deep engineering stuff because I don't have anything nagging at the back of my mind.

Jeff telling me I should stop using todo lists is like an alcohol telling me to stop drinking. No, you should stop drinking, I should drink however much I like because I don't have a problem with it.
Here is an old one (2006) at Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN_YdMdjVpU
That's so unfortunate. I'm kind of bummed that (at least in your sample) the HN community seems to spam more about a businessman than an engineer.

I'm curious what will happen when Woz passes.
I have been coding since I was 11... I am 23 now. I cannot imagine a different outcome for myself.
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I meant Kolmogorov randomness which is defined via incompressibility.
Probably a combination of the above. They are also writing tests for each successfully crushed bug:

Whenever a bug is reported against SQLite, that bug is not considered fixed until new test cases have been added to the TCL test suite which would exhibit the bug in an unpatched version of SQLite. Over the years, this has resulted in thousands and thousands of new tests being added to the TCL test suite. These regression tests ensure that bugs that have been fixed in the past are not reintroduced into future versions of SQLite.
Seeing a comment take a dive into Jupiter kind of counted for me. I built a cd-rom of images from that for a company I worked for. It was amazing.
Lame. I know it has some flaws but IE9 is probably the best IE they've made for a long time. I don't use it much except for testing sites to make sure they work. I really don't have to do any IE9 specific tweaks like with 7. I've not had any video buffering issues specific to IE either. Generally that has to do with the source.
Values After The Design Boom: A Look at Apple’s Legacy
I recently read an opinion piece in Wired that I couldn’t put out of mind.
Estonia Drives Robotics and Coding Education With Smartlab Hobby Groups
Do you use an X1 Carbon? I've heard a lot of people remarking about it, but very few of those people actually seem to use one.

If you do, how's the screen?
Tsk tsk...hackers and a coding challenge are the last things you should except to be devoid of loopholes and tricks. Always be extra careful making them, and don't bet more than you can afford, or you'll come out with a rep like Mike.
Look at the relevant part of the exchange:

> > I meant can I send you a compressor and several compressed files whose total file size is less than the original uncompressed file and from which I can regenerate the original uncompressed file
> > Patrick

> Sure -- but you send me a decompressor, I don't need the compressor.

Was this "compressor" vs. "decompressor" actually a slip up, or intentional to distract from the importance of what he was asking?
Actually I'll agree the docs are awkwardly placed on the landing page. They should be front and center. Bootstrap also does do more. Though that's good or bad depending on your point of view.

Personally I would lean to bootstrap if I wanted everything and the kitchen sink and didn't plan on modifying much about it. For more serious work Foundation provides just that, a good foundation for building on top of. It's far less full featured but much easier to extend and modify (imo).
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"You can't solve the halting problem" was high on the list of responses that made selling static analysis a pain in the butt.
The BSD networking stack.
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..How the hell is this more simple than:..

If the technology does 1 Billion operations on your behalf when you could do it in 10, but now you have to only take one action, then it is simpler to you.
Uber Sued By Taxi And Livery Companies In Chicago For Consumer Fraud And More
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Entire working android phone embedded in this week's Entertainment Weekly magazine.
Anyone want to place bets that 'anigbrowl loves the war on drugs?
I have a writeup on some of the chrome network internals here: http://www.igvita.com/2012/06/04/chrome-networking-dns-prefe...

As you found in the code above.. the idea is simply to complete the TCP handshake and keep the connection idle until the request is ready to be dispatched. Doing so allows Chrome to shave off one RTT (TCP handshake) of latency.
>Do these postings of slides ever help anyone? I never seem to get anything out of just clicking through slides with no explanations.

Huh? I picked at least 5 different points and techniques I can use from this specific slides, some of them with code.
As a non-designer that's not really an issue for me. There are so many cheap or FOSS design templates, snippets, icons, etc available these days that it's not a huge problem to put together a package of them for Foundation.

I use Bootstrap when

1. the default Bootstrap theme or a third party theme are sufficient

2. I don't need Foundation's better grid system

3. I'm using something other than Ruby (which for me is most of the time)

Foundation for:

1. There's a specific problem that their better grid system solves. I haven't come across this yet, but am aware of it for when/if I do.

2. Client wants a highly customized Ruby-based site with no hint of the Bootstrap look

As someone mentioned above, you can use Foundation and borrow design and/or javascript elements from Bootstrap and elsewhere if you need to go that route.
T21 -> T41p -> T61p -> x220. I think it's safe to say I'm brand loyal.

I've always felt that Thinkpads look cooler with a beat up the case. I'll never own a sleeve or protector. They don't require one.

I have a hard time saying that about any of my other electronics.

As a side, I've just flown from LAX -> Sydney -> Perth on a single charge using the Slice battery and standard 6 cell. Took out season 5 of Mad Men in 720p in the process.
The Apple mapping debacle frustrated lots of Apple fanbois as well.
I hate it when people drag the whole "it only runs on Windows" argument into it. There is plenty of software that runs on only one OS (including OSX). That does not make it crap software. It just makes it OS specific.
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Also, humans have spent a lot more time on computers and iPhones than they have listening to the Beatles.
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Thanks Scott.
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Updates as part of customer support after you make the sale should really be common sense and something all manufacturers should do during the average time of owning a smartphone, which is probably around 2 years.

Unfortunately, since most manufacturers are used to releasing a new model every 2 weeks, they just don't care about stuff as much as they should. Paying money for upgrades might give them an extra incentive to do it, but I'm not sure it will work. Would they offer the upgrades for 2 years even if they sell 200,000 units of a certain model and only 2,000 people pay for those upgrades? But as I said, it shouldn't even be needed.
You know you're doing something truly disruptive when your competitors have to invoke or change the law to defeat you.
And that may be just fine for your product. Having said that, I'm a big proponent of treading speed as a feature - evaluate it, quantify it, and prioritize it as such. Then, you may have the time to use these tools :-)
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As a web developer within the NHS (though in Scotland) I can already tell you that the problem won't be that NHS staff can't code, but will be that they won't be allowed to code.

The main issue is always the archaic IT department who lock down computers, rendering them near useless. That would be the first place to start. Then we can start teaching our staff to do something other than create a Word document and visit their staff Intranet.
To see an actual live demo check out https://compilr.com/piwh1000/c-sharp/main.cs
Why did you just ask the same question again? I guess you couldn't tell what z92 meant?

Anyway the answer to your question is no. The article is talking about total light, in Watts. Area is not a factor.
My first reading of this interpreted it as a tongue-in-cheek way of saying "Static websites are resilient enough to last for years, for better or worse!" I do agree with the premise in that most dynamic solutions will in relatively short order (~1-2 years?) show signs of their age - be it memory leaks, security breaches, or just lack of flexibility.

"Me Too Aside": A few months ago I finally started up my personal blog[1] which uses Hyde[2] (the Python brother of Jekyll) and is served via an S3 bucket. I found it extremely refreshing not to have to worry about yet another web infrastructure to maintain. It's exceedingly easy to update and maintain.

[1]: http://www.verdantrefuge.com/
[2]: https://github.com/hyde/hyde
Confusingly enough, HTTPArchive.org, and HAR the file format are two different projects (although one depends on the other).

httparchive.org - captures web trends
http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/har-12-spec/ - HAR file format
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Ask HN: Preferred way to bootstrap demo data for a user in a Rails web app?
The basic premise here is that my web product focuses on keyword research & analysis. We have a step by step tour system implemented with Guiders.js, but I'd ideally like to walk users through a keyword research report as well on their first login, instead of just the interface.

So the way I'd like to do this is have an example keyword automatically bootstrapped into a user's account when they first login. My initial idea is to create that keyword in an existing account, dump that data into a YML file, then on new user creation, bootstrap that into their account and modify the details of the associated records to be assigned to that new user account (which is really just changing the user_id).

All the gems I'm finding for this revolve around DB seeds and rake tasks. Has anyone done this with an in-model method or anything similar? Any advice to share in regards to starting a new user's account off with some data prepopulated?
What does "weighted lies" mean? What is the weighting? The bottom graph splits close to 50-50.
> I derived such a big part of my ... identity from iOS

I don't think that iOS would ever qualify as a cornerstone of my life. Why does it for you? Just curious.
Very irrelevant, but good post timing ;)